"Open DNS" = Big Brother?
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From: Wes Groleau on 28 May 2010 12:10 On 05-28-2010 11:45, Lewis wrote: > 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are free and open DNS servers withut any of the > 'helpful' issues of Open DNS. Some people might decline due to the likelihood that Google keeps track of what hostnames are requested by which IP addresses. The rest of us would call them paranoid. But we might be wrong. -- Wes Groleau Ellen Shrager's presentation at AZLA http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/barrett?itemid=1384
From: Wes Groleau on 28 May 2010 12:14 A local caching DNS server is not hard to set up. It will be much faster (on average) than any external nameserver. It will never block anything your admin doesn't tell it to. It will never store any tracking that your admin doesn't tell it to. -- Wes Groleau Daily Hoax: http://www.snopes2.com/cgi-bin/random/random.asp
From: Jolly Roger on 28 May 2010 14:42
In article <htlu92$4hh$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > Jolly Roger wrote: > > In article <htjf7b$nm7$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > J Burns <burns4(a)nowhere.com> wrote: > > > >> I don't know why DNS server addresses in a router would affect > >> iThingies. > > > > What's an "iThingie"? > > > Ad Davoud said above, "When I change the settings in my router the > computers work fine, but the iThingies (Pads, Phones, Pods) can't see > the Internet." > > I thought he had coined the term, but here it is from 2007: > > http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2007/12/get-ready-f > or-t.html This is the first I've ever heard of it. It's not a particularly catchy term, if you ask me. And it's certainly not very popular. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR |